PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSIONS

 

2020: The Process and Practice of Collaborative Devising—A Practical Q&A via Zoom. A discussion about immersive theater and community-engaged performance work.

Wesleyan University

2019: Presentation at Bogliasco Foundation in Italy regarding immersive theater, experiential design, site-specific, and devising original work for theater in collaboration with performers.

Bogliasco Foundation

2018: Presentation on Experiential Design & Performance at MindPark for Future City and TOPYS in Shenzhen, China

MindPark

2018: Presentation on Experience Design, Immersive and Site-specific Theater, and GPS projects with CEC Artslink and Art Prospekt Festival. New Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia.

New Alexandrinsky

2018: Presentation in Shanghai, with Jennine Willett, for China Dream Entertainment Live workshops on Immersive storytelling and devising immersive theater.

China Dream Entertainment

2018: Featuring: Tom Pearson and Jennine Willett of Third Rail Projects; Teddy Bergman, Woodshed Collective; Bradley King, Tony Award-Winning Lighting Designer; and Randy Weiner, producer.

The Drama League

2016: Presentation at the Museum of Russian Ethnography, St Petersburg, RU on Third Rail and GPS activities with CEC Artslink in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan and in Hong Kong.

CEC Artslink

2016: Tom Pearson and Zach Morris join DCPA Playwriting Fellow Matthew Lopez at the Devised Work Panel, at the 2016 Colorado New Play Summit, hosted by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

New Play Summit

2016: “Immersive Theatre: Marrying Story, Place and Community.” Tom Pearson and Anne Hamburger in Conversation at HumanaFest at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville.

Actor’s Theater Louisville

Tom has also served on a number of residency, granting, and awards selection committees, which for privacy and integrity of the programs, are not listed.

Other Leadership Activities

  • April 21, 2020: Wesleyan University, Muriel Miguel: An Artist Talk, Tom Pearson Moderator for the Talk Back.

  • September 12, 2018: St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia. Lecture “Immersive Theater and Experience Design” by Tom Pearson, shared presentation with Kendal Henry for course by Susan Katz.

  • September 5, 2018: Lecture and Q&A at Alexandrinsky Theater with Renata Zhigulina and Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, presented by New Stages at Alexandrinsky Theater, Show Consulting School, and CEC Artslink, organized by Anastasia Nesterova

  • June 17, 2018: Pillow Talks in Blake’s Barn at Jacob’s Pillow | Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts. Q&A following a screening of Between Yourself and Me a film that documents the creative process of Third Rail Projects, a New York-based company specializing in immersive theater works such as Then She Fell. The discussion features Executive Producer Ron Honsa and the co-Artistic Directors of Third Rail Projects: Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, and Jennine Willett moderated by Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe.

  • July 21, 2014: Tom Pearson, Commencement Address for the graduating class of the Florida School of the Arts.

  • July 23, 2013: New York Dance Force Panel at Topaz Arts. Tom Pearson, Zach Morris, and Jennine Willett presented on their work and creative practices as well as touring Roadside Attraction.

  • April 29, 2013: Global Art Lab: Tom Pearson, Zach Morris and Gabriel Specter presented their Work at L.E.S. in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

  • April 15, 2009: Lecture for New York University Dance panel moderated by Sydney Skybetter regarding what comes next for the dancer after academia.

  • January 12, 2009: Lecture for the New York State Council on the Arts Annual New York State Presenters Meeting.

  • September 27, 2008: Stage Presence Online, a panel discussion at Topaz Arts, presented by the Queens Council on the Arts. Tom Pearson and Zach Morris participated, focusing on reviewing online strategies for maximizing artistic impact.

  • June 1-3, 2007: Americans for the Arts Conference, Las Vegas, NV: Tom Pearson of Third Rail Projects, Nolini Barretto of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and John Haworth of the National Museum of the American Indian in conversation on the topics of cultural sensitivity and Civic and Government together with Arts Organizations collaborating with independent artists, case study Tom Pearson’s REEL at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, NY.

  • November 6, 2006 Lecture at Fordham University on Site-specific performance and Native theater.